How to Use astronomer in a Sentence

astronomer

noun

• As a girl, Dudik dreamed of becoming an astronomer one day.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
• That is not saying anything new, and printing it in Fortune is like telling an astronomer that there are a lot of stars.
  — Dan Catchpole, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021
• The astronomer Wendy Freedman used Hubble to observe pulsating stars called cepheids.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• The finding adds another piece to the puzzle as astronomers seek to understand the remains this unusual supernova left behind.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
• The first star map can be traced back to the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus around 129 BC.
  — Lucie Green, Wired, 15 Dec. 2021
• What atmospheric phenomenon, which was named by the astronomer Galileo, was recently visible further south than usual due to a recent solar flare?
  — CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Throughout his adulthood, Galileo worked as an astronomer, physicist, philosopher, inventor and mathematician.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2021
• Many of the astronomers who observed it then are not alive now.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
• Smith was the second astronomer hired on the project by John Mather in 1996.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the 1920s astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn took this a step further.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
• Now, one astronomer by the name of Avi Loeb seems to think that this meteorite could have been alien tech.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Sep. 2022
• Carl Sagan, the astronomer and TV host, chaired the committee that decided what to put on the record.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Dec. 2021
• In years past, many astronomers thought of the solar wind as a steady flow, streaming away from the sun at a constant rate.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
• So why not celebrate the Mayan astronomers who found Venus?
  — Noé López, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Many more baby black holes await the attention of the telescope and its astronomers.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
• This was the true origin of the magnitude scale, which astronomers still use today.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• But over the past several years, a team of astronomers has begun to rewrite the ballet of stars.
  — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
• But just think of it: an amateur astronomer watching the Moon cover the Sun from a place named Mars Hill?
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• Sara Seager, an astronomer from MIT, proposed the idea.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Mar. 2022
• But that makes sense: The farther an astronomer wants to peer from Earth, the fuzzier their creations become.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• About 1,000 light-years away, a vast disk of gas and dust is offering astronomers a peek at how planets are born.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• That makes astronomers’ conclusion that the Milky Way has four arms, something of a surprise.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• For decades astronomers have wondered how the cosmos grew and took shape and what its ultimate fate will be.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Which is why astronomers are so excited about the James Webb Space Telescope.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2024
• The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor show, dates back to 687 BC by the Chinese, astronomers say.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
• That provided a map of the magnetic field, according to an astronomer who led the study.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• In no other field do men confront mystery and challenge like that which looms down upon the astronomer in the long watches of the night.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Comet Nishimura was first spotted in Japan by a novice astronomer in mid-August, which is why the comet was named after him.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• While astronomers have been observing violent supernovae for centuries, this new triple system may be the first evidence of a black hole that formed from this more gentle process.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
• The citadel is thought to have housed a population of around 500 royals, philosophers, astronomers, and climate scientists — all of whom had been involved in designing and organizing the project.
  — Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024